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063 Running a farm while on vacation, taking care of new chicks, Ractopamine in pork

063 Running a farm while on vacation, taking care of new chicks, Ractopamine in pork

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast


063 Running a farm while on vacation, taking care of new chicks, Ractopamine in pork

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Mar 27, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week our farming podcast talks about how we (the farmers) manage to get away on a vaction while entrusting the farm to capable hands. Who says farming needs to be all work and no play. There's a set of steps we undergo to ensure the farm is ready to be watched and we share a bunch of those.
We share our story about a farmers market we visited while on vacation in sunny Florida.  It was interesting for us to deal with how the farmer becomes the consumer.
There's a new segment this week called "Remember When"... where we talk about how we start off little chicks to grow them into healthy birds.
Finally, our last segment this week is an "In the News" where we discuss how China, Russia and otehr countries have banned the import of a bunch of US raised meats because of the usage of a chemical called Ractopamine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ractopamine
Released:
Mar 27, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Sharing our small farm stories and skills along our farming, gardening and homesteading journey. Visit the farm for an informative and sometimes irreverent tour through our garden, livestock pastures, chicken coop and greenhouse as we live - pasture to plate. Farming topics free range around pastured heritage pigs, broiler chickens and pastured eggs, heritage breed turkeys, an heirloom vegetable CSA and garden, high tunnel / hoop house / green houses, organic and traditional gardening, farm infrastructure, tractors, sustainable energy, permaculture, food preservation and even fence mending.